Achromobacter endocarditis in native cardiac valves - an autopsy case report and review of the literature

Cardiovasc Pathol. 2018 Sep-Oct:36:6-10. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2018.05.003. Epub 2018 May 22.

Authors

Rong Xia¹, Caitlin Otto¹, Jianying Zeng¹, Amir Momeni-Boroujeni¹, Joshua Kagan¹, Katharine Meleney², Jenny Libien³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
² Infectious Diseases Division, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. Electronic address: Jenny.Libien@downstate.edu.

PMID: 29906520
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2018.05.003

No abstract available

Keywords: Achromobacter; Autopsy; Endocarditis; Native valve.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Achromobacter / drug effects
Achromobacter / isolation & purification*
Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Autopsy
Bacteriological Techniques
Biopsy
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Endocarditis, Bacterial / drug therapy
Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
Endocarditis, Bacterial / pathology
Fatal Outcome
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / pathology
Humans
Male
Meropenem / therapeutic use
Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve / drug effects
Mitral Valve / microbiology*
Mitral Valve / pathology
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Meropenem